On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 01:23:54PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> On 14/04/16 15:10, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 02:52:52PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
[...]
> > > + /* Map slave addresses of ANX7814 */
> > > + for (i = 0; i < I2C_NUM_ADDRESSES; i++) {
> > > + anx78xx->i2c_dummy[i] = i2c_new_dummy(client->adapter,
> > > + anx78xx_i2c_addresses[i] >> 1);
> > > + if (!anx78xx->i2c_dummy[i]) {
> > > + err = -ENOMEM;
> > > + DRM_ERROR("Failed to reserve i2c bus %02x.\n",
> > > + anx78xx_i2c_addresses[i]);
> > > + goto err_unregister_i2c;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + anx78xx->map[i] = devm_regmap_init_i2c(anx78xx->i2c_dummy[i],
> > > + &anx78xx_regmap_config);
> > > + if (IS_ERR(anx78xx->map[i])) {
> > > + err = PTR_ERR(anx78xx->map[i]);
> > > + DRM_ERROR("Failed regmap initialization %02x.\n",
> > > + anx78xx_i2c_addresses[i]);
> > > + goto err_unregister_i2c;
> > > + }
> > > + }
> >
> > That's quite some overhead merely to use regmap... Perhaps there's room
> > to enhance regmap-i2c to support multiple addresses for the same device?
> >
>
> Yes it is, guess this is also used on other drivers, so will make sense
> enhance regmap-i2c, but let me do this on a future regmap-i2c patch series
> ;)
Yes, improving this in a follow-up patch seems fine, especially since
this already seems to be a common pattern.
I'll try to take a look at v4 hopefully within the week.
Thierry
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